Iran’s leader vows to enforce mandatory dress code as women flout hijab laws
CBS News, August 9, 2023
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi vowed Wednesday that the Islamic republic’s mandatory dress code, including laws requiring women to wear the hijab, or headscarf, would be enforced as a growing number of Iranian women shun the head coverings. Raisi’s warning came almost a year after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody, after she was detained for breaking the hijab rules, sparked the biggest protests against Iran’s ruling clerics in decades.
“I am telling you that the removal of the hijab will definitely come to an end, do not worry,” Raisi said Wednesday at a commemoration ceremony for Iranian fighters killed in Iraq and Syria.
The Iranian president said some of the women who have declined to cover their heads in public recently were “ignorant” and “needed to be woken up” — helped to understand that they are not serving the national interests of their country. But a “small number” of women, he claimed, had been “trained by foreigners” in an “organized” bid to undermine Iran’s government.
Iranian authorities have taken a firmer line against women flouting the hijab laws in recent months, after an increasing number of women started appearing unveiled in public.
In April, Iran’s deputy attorney general Ali Jamadi told state media that anyone who encouraged women to remove the hijab would be prosecuted in criminal courts and would have no right of appeal against any conviction, according to Reuters news agency.
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